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But I'm still actually feeling pretty great.

I've lost 12 pounds total. I can fit into all of my clothing again, even the weird Korean skirt with a random tiny dog face embroidered on it.

I am consistently running 9min miles, with an occasional 8min mile if I try hard enough.

I found a really good self-tanner that works in the shower and ( Read more... )

I finally got an Instagram account. I have been kicking around getting one for a while. A lot of our daughter's friends, and more than half of the berries, have them. I like to be versed in whatever it is that they're using. C handles the online gaming stuff, I deal with the social media. But yeah. I'm on there now with running medals and yarnporn ( Read more... )

I can't live up to my new underwear. It's the cinnamon roll of underwear.

C had an unclaimed credit and discount at Harrods, accrued after stuff he bought while over there last year. He couldn't find anything on which to use it, and he won't be back that way until maybe the fall. He asked me to see if I could find anything I'd want on their ( Read more... )

 I ordered a spinning batt from Etsy. It's a blend of different types of wool with bamboo and firestar. The color way was called "strawberry shortcake", and the photos showed it as being mostly a bright magenta pink to a kind of rosy pink, with some beige here and there, streaked with white and sparkly stuff.

It came in the other day. The ( Read more... )

My eldest has me a little verklempt.

I had a training run in Bmore city this morning early.  My daughter was going into the city too, slightly later, with her friend, and the friend's mom.

The mom tells me that when they were walking through the inner harbor, she said to my daughter "How does your mom run in this cold?", to which my daughter ( Read more... )

It's pay day. I've ordered groceries, paid for kids' stuff. Filled the gas tank...

I can also order new wool for the spinning wheel.  And I just...


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The spinning wheel arrived today. I can now see why one spinning instructor I read about makes her students use a drop-spindle for a period of time before she sits them down at a wheel. As much as I hate drop spindling (And I do. I hate it.) if I didn't know more or less how to do it, I don't think I would have been able to pick up the wheel so ( Read more... )

Finally done with the deceptively named "clean and simple" baby dress. To be fair, I was waylaid from working on it for several weeks, then I kept procrastinating since it just wasn't a fun knit. It's done now, and very cute. It's actually much cuter in person than it photographs. I need to put a couple of buttons on the back and send it off to my ( Read more... )

A couple days out, I'm nudging around my thoughts on the MCM. I say nudging around and not "wrestling with". It's not quite that level of introspection, but I'm still wading around in my head probably more than I should.

I don't feel quite as changed as everyone said I would be? That's not bad nor good - just a thing. Several of the others are ( Read more... )